Ernest Hemingway Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

Yet even more curious, is how Hemingway describes Fitzgerald’s physically feminine appearance. “Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hair, a high forehead, excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty” (Chapter 17). Here Hemingway appears to be mirroring and projecting the image his mother gave him as a young child in her attempt to make him look like a girl onto Fitzgerald. Furthermore, his mixed images of Fitzgerald is similar to how his mother saw him, both feminine and masculine. When Hemingway’s father committed suicide, Hemingway blamed his mother Grace. Reynold’s explains: “Later as Hemingway reworked parts of his fictive life, he blamed his mother for what had happened to his father. By then the Doctor was dead, a suicide. Rather than admit to himself that his

Martin further elucidates Ernest’s ire toward his mother: “Hemingway throughout his life described her as a selfish and controlling figure whose personality dominated that of his more reserved and passive father. Hemingway stated to friends, "She had to rule everything” (356). In chapter 18 of “A Moveable Feast” titled “Hawks Do Not Share” Hemingway seems to project his rage for his mother onto F. Scott’s wife Zelda and blames her for F. Scott’s alcoholism and inability to work regularly at his writing. Hemingway describes Zelda’s eyes: “Zelda had hawk’s eyes and a thin mouth… “her eyes as blank as a cat’s.” (Chapter 19). Of course, hawks and cats are both predatory animals. Hemingway continues with the predatory